Louis gottmand



(No Model.) 2 Sh'ets-Sheet 1. L. GOUMAND. MACHINE FOR AFPIXING ELASTIC T0 BOXES.

Patented Jan. 24, 1893.

I (No Model.) L GOUMAND 2 Sheets-Sheet 2.

MAUHINEFOR AFPIXING ELASTIC T0 BOXES.

Patented Jan. 24, 1893.

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NIT-ED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

LOUIS GOUMAND, OF BUENOS AYRES, ARGENTINE REPUBLIC.

MACHINE FOR AFFlXlNG ELASTIC TO BOXES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 490,386, dated January 24, 1893.

Application filed October 17,1890. Serial No. 368,4:62- (No model.) Patented in France January 10, 1887, No.180,795; in Germany February 12, 1887, No. 40,409; in bpain May 25,1887,N0.7,807; in Italy July 8,1887,No. 327; in Belgium July 9, 1887. No. 78,146, and in England February 1,1889,No. 1,777.

of the case. It is this elastic which automatically effects the opening of the lid T when the drawer of the case is pulled out by drawing out the small drawer T and the closing of the box, that is to say the entrance of the drawer into the case Ais efiected, as soon as the hand leaves the small drawer or as soon as it pushes the said drawer slightly in order to bring about the closing of the lid raised and supported on the edge of the case. I moreover add that the drawer is completed, by means of a sheet of card-board T Fig. 13, cut in any size and shape desirable, then manufactured by hand and preferably by the aid of my machines for manufacturing matchboxes. Before submitting this sheet of cardboard to the operation of the said machines, it is best to affix the elastic E, the free end of which is fastened finally to the bottom of the case, but after the completion of the drawer and its case. These are the two operations which I effect by means of the new machine, the essential aim of the present application for a patent,and which are clearly set forth in Figs. 1 to 7.

he frame is made up of iron legs a a suitably connected by cross bars, and a table I) resting on these legs. These are fitted up with the bearings a a of the motor shaft 0, which carries the driving pulley P and the other two motive cams c and d.

On the table are fixed the guides e e of the needle f and the supports 9. of the knife; also the support It on which is placed the coil of metallic wire required to attach the elastic. This wire as which passes into a guide'i is drawn into a recess 9' conducting it to the gutde piece 70 which the needle traverses with the elastic. Between the guides t' and j, the metallic thread is taken hold of by the feeding pincher whose jaws 10 p normally held apart by means of the spring 1 are closed by a rib d, which enters at a desired moment between the two branches p10 (Figs. 3 and i). This pincher has a pivot p movable on an axis 10 in such a manner that it acquires by the influence of the eccentric d and the swinging spring y Fig. 4a movement of oscil- TO a whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, LOUIS GOUMAND, a citizen of France, residing at Buenos Ayres, Ar-

gentine Republic, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Machines for Affixing the Elastic on Match and other Boxes, (which has been patented in France January 10, 1887, No. 180,795; in Germany February 12, 1887, No. 40,4.09; in Spain May 25, 1887, No. 7,807; in Italy July 8, 1887, No. 327-, in Bel- I gium July 9, 1887 ,No. 7 8,146, and in England February 1, 1889, No. 1,777,) and I declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same.

The new machine which I describe hereinafter and set forth in the accompanying drawings, has for its particular object affixing the elastic of match-boxes, called drawer-boxes. It can however affix the elastics of any other style of match-box, mercery-box, &c., and it will suffice to adapt its action and combination of elements to the desired result.

Figure 1 is a front view of the machine in elevation, showing the affixing of the elastic to the cut card-board, the elastic being intended to close the drawer. Fig. 2 is the corresponding end view. Figs. 3 and 4. represent in front elevation and cross section the arrangement of pinchers conductingthe metallic wire. Figs. 5 and 6 are details, showing on alarge scale the work of the needle at the moment it takes hold of the elastic before crossing the card-board. Fig. 7 is a transverse section taken on the line 1-2 of Fig. 5. Figs. 8, 9, 11 and 12 are details of the system applied to the affixing of the elastic of the drawer T to the bottom of its case or box A. Fig. 13 shows a card cut out to form the drawer after it has been provided with the elastic E.

The match-boxes in question, perfected by the operation of my apparatus,-or any other kind of box, are composed of two parts, the one T (Fig. 12) which holds the matches, and the other A, which incloses the first, forming the case for it. The part or drawerT is closed by a lid T under the control of an elastic E attached from the other end to the bottom A is stretched in so on continuously. in its alternating, rectilinear and intermittent movements by the cam c which is connected with it by means of the oscillating 1ever 17.. The guide 6 of the needle presents an elliptical boss q having a groove q, the obliquity of which is determined, in order that the ring of india-rubber E, intended to form the elastic, may lie right across the eye of the guide through which the needle fslides (Figs. 5, 6 and 7). The needlef is forked at the end so that it may take hold of the ring of india-rubber with ease and draw it with it and consequently stretch it on the boss taken as a point of anchorage. The end of the needle f is deeply notched underneath for the passage of the metallic wire between the needle and the elastic E. This metallic wire conducted by the pincher, when the needle and its elastic have passed through the cardboard T which should form the drawer, is divided into sections by the descent of the knife 8. This knife is screwed into a socket supported bya lever r pivoting in 1', whose lower arm, provided with a roller, is in contact with the curved surface of a cam 25. The card-board T cut to a suitable shape and size (Fig. 13) is placed by hand against the piece 70, the elastic the groove q of the boss q, and the needle foccupies a position far at the back. The movement of the shafto is transformed by the cam 0 into a rectilinear movement for the needle j; which seizes the elastic E, stretches it, and compels it to pass through the card-board along with it (Fig. 1). Simultaneously the pinchers pp close to catch hold of the metallic wire or, causing it to ad-.

Vance between the needle and the stretched india-rubber until it abuts against a spring (Fig. 10). This reciprocating movementis also effected by the cam d and its rib cl, which cause this movement of the pinchers. cam 25 then acts on the lever r of the knife 8 compelling the latter to descend and cut the metallic wire. The cut portion of this wire returns with the elastic upon the retreat of the needle, but resting across the hole pierced in the card-board. It fastens the elastic to this card-board, which is then taken from the machine. The wire'is fastened by a wafer which imprisons the elastic band. The needle having thus returned to its starting place, I put a new card in and the same successive operations are eifected.

The cards provided with their elastic as herein described are completed by drawers (Fig. 12). The elastic E remains lying loose outside. To afiix it to the bottom A of the box A (Fig. 12) I substitute for the needle f, the needle f (Figs. 8, 9, 11 and 12) ofgreater length and which can be moved farther in a Theneedlefis controlled 1 rectilinear direction by a cam c grooved for the purpose. The box A is then placed on a support in front of the piece 70. The needle passes through the back A and outside t 1e box to catch the elastic E. This needle retreats drawing into the box the drawer T which closes by this movement. It repasses through the back A and at this moment the metallic wire as rests on the back A and is cut to the proper length by theknife s. The needle returns toward the box which it pushes slightly, and as its end is split it attaches the wire to the back and prevents it from falling when the elastic is detached from the hook of the needle. In these two distinct operations, it is well to stop the machine for a certain time after each, so as to have the working portions always in the same position, and in this regard I reserve to myself all rights to use all equivalent arrangements which produce similar results.

Figs. 1 and 2 show a coupling each turn of the levers 'v o. is set in motion pedal 10.

What I claim is:

A machine for match and other boxes consisting of a frame shaft, a wire reel mounted on the frame, a wire feeding device consisting of oscillatory pinchers also mounted on said frame and adapted to grasp said wire, a wire cutting device consisting of an adjustable reciprocating knife vertically mounted in a guide and an apertured wire-guide fixed below said knife and adapted to co-operate therewith, an elastic carrying boss in line with said guide having a longitudinal aperture and a circumferential groove intersecting one extremity of the aperture, a reciprocating needle working in said boss and the wire-guide and having a hooked end adapted produced by he machinery by a pressure exerted on the In a machine for affixing elastic on match latory pinchers mounted on the frame ofthe machine and having spring distended jaws,

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for the elastic and an inserting needle subwith the elastic inserting needle substantially stantially as set forth. as and for the purpose set forth. IO

4. In a machine for affixing the elastic on In witness whereof I have hereunto set my match and other boxes, the boss q having the hand in presence of two witnesses.

5 needle aperture and the groove q for the elas- LOUIS GOUMAND.

tic, substantially as set forth. Witnesses:

5. In a machine for affixing the elastic on R. J. PRESTON,

match and other boxes, the guide 70, combined ALPHONSE BLETRY. 

